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An association copy of Flappers and Philosophers in jacket
FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
Flappers and Philosophers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922. The sixth printing, November 1922, author Budd Schulberg’s copy with stamped booklabel and penciled initials. Publisher’s cloth in the later issue dust jacket. 7 1/2 x 5 (19 x 13 cm); 269 pp. Jacket with a loss at the spine tip touching the top word, a larger loss at foot costing the imprint, other short tears, nicks, toning and stains, the volume generally sound with light rubbing to tips and corners, the front hinge loose after the half-title, toning to endpapers from jacket, original label of the Stanley Rose bookshop at rear, the front pastedown with the neat stamp of "Virginia and Budd Schulberg," the font blank penciled "B.W.S." for Budd Wilson Schulberg.
A fine association copy between F. Scott Fitzgerald and On the Waterfront author Budd Schulberg. This copy was acquired by Schulberg likely at time of his marriage to Virginia "Jigee" Lee Ray in 1936 and before their divorce in 1942. This timing is important as it was in 1939 that Schulberg was assigned to accompany Fitzgerald on a trip to Dartmouth College to collaborate on the comedy-drama Winter Carnival. Fitzgerald had recently lost his job in Hollywood and had been hospitalized for his drinking several times over the previous few years. The story goes that Schulberg, to pass the time. brought a bottle of whiskey on the flight east from Los Angeles which launched Fitzgerald on an epic bender and he was subsequently relieved of the writing assignment (Fitzgerald died in 1940). Schulberg's 1950 novel The Disenchanted is a thinly veiled memoir of his time with Fitzgerald.
Flappers and Philosphers was first published in 1920 and turned Fitzgerald into one of the country's most popular short story writers. The book is rare in any dust jacket, the example here is the later issue featuring Fitzgerald's portrait and a description of his books. The front panel offers an illustration of a young women receiving a flapper haircut, clearly a depiction of "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," one of Fitzgerald's most popular and enduring stories of the Jazz Age. Brucolli A.6.I.f.
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FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT
Flappers and Philosophers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922. The sixth printing, November 1922, author Budd Schulberg’s copy with stamped booklabel and penciled initials. Publisher’s cloth in the later issue dust jacket. 7 1/2 x 5 (19 x 13 cm); 269 pp. Jacket with a loss at the spine tip touching the top word, a larger loss at foot costing the imprint, other short tears, nicks, toning and stains, the volume generally sound with light rubbing to tips and corners, the front hinge loose after the half-title, toning to endpapers from jacket, original label of the Stanley Rose bookshop at rear, the front pastedown with the neat stamp of "Virginia and Budd Schulberg," the font blank penciled "B.W.S." for Budd Wilson Schulberg.
A fine association copy between F. Scott Fitzgerald and On the Waterfront author Budd Schulberg. This copy was acquired by Schulberg likely at time of his marriage to Virginia "Jigee" Lee Ray in 1936 and before their divorce in 1942. This timing is important as it was in 1939 that Schulberg was assigned to accompany Fitzgerald on a trip to Dartmouth College to collaborate on the comedy-drama Winter Carnival. Fitzgerald had recently lost his job in Hollywood and had been hospitalized for his drinking several times over the previous few years. The story goes that Schulberg, to pass the time. brought a bottle of whiskey on the flight east from Los Angeles which launched Fitzgerald on an epic bender and he was subsequently relieved of the writing assignment (Fitzgerald died in 1940). Schulberg's 1950 novel The Disenchanted is a thinly veiled memoir of his time with Fitzgerald.
Flappers and Philosphers was first published in 1920 and turned Fitzgerald into one of the country's most popular short story writers. The book is rare in any dust jacket, the example here is the later issue featuring Fitzgerald's portrait and a description of his books. The front panel offers an illustration of a young women receiving a flapper haircut, clearly a depiction of "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," one of Fitzgerald's most popular and enduring stories of the Jazz Age. Brucolli A.6.I.f.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, May 1, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on May 1, 2024 Totals $1.2 Million
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A Medieval Manuscript Rules of St. Augustine Achieves $102k
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Consignments Are Currently Being Accepted for Future Auctions
NEW YORK, NY -- Competitive bidding at Doyle’s May 1, 2024 auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps drove strong prices and a sale total that topped $1.2 million, surpassing expectations.
Featured in the sale was a fascinating selection of early manuscripts that achieved exceptional results. Highlighting the group was a 14th century manuscript of the Rules of St. Augustine from an English priory that soared over its $8,000-12,000 estimate to realize a stunning $102,100. The Rule of St. Augustine is among the earliest of all monastic rules, created about 400, and it was an influence on all that succeeded it. Other notable results included a 14th century Etymologiae of St. Isidore estimated at $5,000-8,000 that achieved $51,200 and a 15th century Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier estimated at $10,000-15,000 that sold for $28,800.
A first edition of John James Audubon's octavo Birds of America sold for $41,600, far over its $25,000-35,000 estimate. Published in 1840-1844 in seven volumes, the first octavo edition was the final Birds of America publication overseen by Audubon in his lifetime.
The Fred Rotondaro Collection offered rare books and manuscripts on a range of subjects touching the African American experience in the United States over three centuries. A first edition copy of Frederick Douglass’ 1876 speech at the unveiling of the Freedman's Monument in Washington realized $12,800, far exceeding its $3,000-5,000 estimate. A first edition of the first issue of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin from 1852 also achieved $12,800.
Highlighting the range of offerings from the Ken Harte Collection of Natural History was a first edition Richard Bowdler Sharpe’s beautifully illustrated monograph of Kingfishers, 1868-71, that sold for $14,080, doubling its $6,000-8,000 estimate. It was accompanied by an inscribed copy of the rare unfinished chapter on the anatomy of the kingfisher by James Murie.
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